Invaders targeted Trumbull home

Updated 9:45 am, Thursday, January 16, 2014

TRUMBULL -- A man suffered minor cuts and bruises when he was struck with a handgun during a home invasion Thursday night, police said.

Two suspects entered the home at 233 White Plains Road at 9:50 p.m. through an unlocked rear door, Assistant Chief Mike Harry said, and confronted the victim in his room.

"He resisted and one of them hit him with a gun,'' Harry said. "We believe that this was a targeted incident and that the suspects were there for something specific.''

The victim's laptop was taken, the police spokesman said.

"This was not random; three men live in the house and one of them was on the phone to 911 during the incident. He was calling from his bedroom and the (robbers) didn't bother him at all. They may not have even known he was there.''